Steve Lodder Trios ‘2 Sorts Of 3’ album launch at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, London.

Date: Saturday, January 17, 2026

Featuring: Steve Lodder

Venue

Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, London

Pizza Express Jazz Club,
Dean Street,
Soho,
London,
W1D 3RW.

More details

From;
https://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/steve-lodder-trios

Steve Lodder Trios
2 Sorts of 3 Album Launch
PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)

Renowned pianist, composer and arranger Steve Lodder returns with 2 sorts of 3, a new double-trio album featuring contrasting ‘plugged’ and ‘unplugged’ line-ups. Bringing together acoustic warmth and electronic colour, the twelve original pieces draw on lyrical jazz, samba and fusion influences. With long-time collaborators Dudley Phillips and Nic France, and Freddie Jensen and Marius Rodrigues,(replaced by Rod Youngs at this gig) the album reflects Lodder’s love of the acoustic piano but also the Rhodes Mk8 electric piano.
£20.00

17 January 2026 12:00pm 1:00pm PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)
Available
£20.00

Full Biography

Steve studied at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, where he held an organ scholarship. He taught music before developing an interest in jazz and improvised styles, which led to working with the elite of the UK’s jazz musicians including: Andy Sheppard, John Etheridge, Annie Whitehead, Harry Beckett and Sarah Jane Morris.

Internationally, Steve has been a member of George Russell’s ‘Living Time Orchestra’ since the early ‘90’s and has toured with Carla Bley, Steve Swallow and Ernestine Anderson. He met with John Harle also in the early ‘90’s and recorded the ‘Shadow of the Duke’, and ‘Terror and Magnificence’, alongside Elvis Costello. Other projects with John have followed, including working with Paul McCartney on his ‘Standing Stone’ and ‘Ecce cor Meum’ pieces.

In the last few years Steve has collaborated with Robert Wyatt in a songwriting team for Brazilian singer Monica Vasconcelos, worked with Israeli drummer Asaf Sirkis in his group ‘Inner Noise’, and recorded his own album ‘Bout time 2’.

A founding member of the ‘Zappatistas’, an outfit led by John Etheridge that reworks the catalogue of Frank Zappa, with arrangements mostly by Steve. Other notable projects include ‘Above the Clouds’ with Mark Ramsden, ‘Threeway’, a trio with trumpeter Steve Waterman and bassist Ben Crosland, touring and recording with the Sardinian singer Filomena Campus, drummer Dylan Howe’s Subterraneans, and Alison Rayner’s 5tet.

Band Lineup
Steve Lodder (piano, keyboard)
Dudley Phillips (bass)
Nic France (drums)
Freddie Jensen (double bass)
Rod Youngs (drums)